North Korea indigenous GLCM

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Hood said:
The absence of anything in this thread other than photos of tinkered with Il-10s and MiG-17s from 50 years ago suggests that this thread is never going to give us a rich crop of North Korean indigenous aircraft.
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Several months after this thread was made North Korea tested cruise missile with range of 1500 kilometers in September of 2021.

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During late January of 2022 there was test of even longer range cruise missile by North Korea with range of 1800 kilometers.

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That is more than enough to cover both Japan and Taiwan in their entirety.

Longer range than Iranian Hoveyzeh with 1200km range demonstrated and South's Hyunmoo-3C with estimated 1500km range.

There is expectation that sooner or later technology from this cruise missile may be used on unmanned reconnaissance aircrafts.
https://newsis.com/view/?id=NISX20220128_0001741901&cID=10301&pID=10300
 
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The white colored one has a rectangular air intake, long intake duct, higher mounted wings....

The black colored one has a round air intake, and mid mounted wings....
 
I am curious as to where they are getting small turbine engines from
 
zjz said:
The white colored one has a rectangular air intake, long intake duct, higher mounted wings....

The black colored one has a round air intake, and mid mounted wings....
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White one also has longer wings than black one.
quellish said:
I am curious as to where they are getting small turbine engines from
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From whom? They are producing them.
kaiserbill said:
Building a small, single use cruise missile engine should be well within NK industrial capabilities IMHO.
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Russia exported TRDD-50/36MT miniature two-spool low-medium bypass turbofan powered Kh-35 to North Korea in 2005.
Likely reverse engineered or an example to analyze and gain knowledge for miniature turbofan design principle.
Iran for example reverse engineered Microturbo Tri-60 series and then developed derivative turbojet engines.
 
I wonder what are the reasons for the 2 intake designs?
 
North Korea's cruise missile turbofan engine

We can see the distinctive external bypass shrink section, which is very close to the characteristics of the 36MT turbofan.

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According to the report, the main problem with engine production seems to be material production capacity and quality (not sure).
 
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KUMA said:
North Korea's cruise missile turbofan engine

We can see the distinctive external bypass shrink section, which is very close to the characteristics of the 36MT turbofan.

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According to the report, the main problem with engine production seems to be material production capacity and quality (not sure).
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Considering dozens of LACM tested at 1500-2000 kilometers, good enough quality.

36MT aka TRDD-50 at most can do 10 hours.
 

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